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Description
I spent a good portion of July in Brazil with clients, including a couple of different locations in the Amazon. We spent a fair bit of time cruising the rivers there, something that inevitably leads to some interesting bird encounters. Herons are a common sight, but this juvenile tiger heron caught our attention with its antics.
At one point, as it was hunting at the river’s edge (in front of a dark streambed, which provides the background here), it snatched a leaf out of the water and juggled it a bit. Probably a bit hopeful that there was food, or perhaps still inexperienced and assuming the leaf was food… hard to say, but good for us, regardless.
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Canon R3
Canon 600mm
ISO 6400
1/200th
f/4
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Beautiful colors and detail in this image, Max, and the heron really pops against the black background. Considerate of the heron to have the leaf so well positioned.
Nice job on this heron. It’s pretty interesting seeing all these different heron types. They all seem to be pretty special south of the border. Excellent., color, and detail.
I got some shots of An Agami heron in Costa Rica. And I think we might have seen some tiger herons
On our outing to the Tarcolis river.
David, I’m sure you saw tiger herons on the Tarcoles. Likely Bare-throated, but Costa Rica also has Fasciated Tiger Heron… in both species, the juveniles look very similar to this one.
No flash, Jeffrey. I specifically underexposed to achieve a darker background, and bumped the contrast in post, but there was no selective editing done.
